I didn't get the chance to try Orisa outside of Skirmish but I've played against her a couple of times and I like her kit. Being able to just plonk down a barrier and start firing is super useful, and I've seen some tidy alt fire usage - pulling me off high ground, pulling some people off ledges, etc. Going to enjoy giving her a proper go on Friday.

New Sombra seems like she's going to be class though, on certain maps health pack hacking is super useful (especially with solo healer) and her whole flank and hack play is even easier now she's got the short cooldown on translocator. Will give it a go this weekend, few of us on it might work a bit better than with randoms.

Did well to turn it around in that last session, was a bit depressing for the first couple of hours though! Anyone feeling it this weekend? G is away Friday and Saturday so I'll be getting some hours in.

What night is good for people this weekend? Friday or Saturday, one or the other for me.

I've managed to sort my connection out a little bit, I feel like I've been playing a lot better as a result.

Had a game yesterday; we held the second point on Anubis, when it was our turn to attack two people from our team got disconnected. Successfully managed to hold the first point for two minutes with four people (I was playing as Mei). The two guys re-connected and we went on to hold the first point and win the game. Very satisfying.

Not sure how I feel about Orisa, it doesn't feel very fun coming against teams with a Reinhardt and an Orisa, especially with the classes I prefer to play like Soldier/Mei etc. I feel I'm just constantly hitting barriers. I think Junkrat is a pretty good pick in these scenarios now, might start giving him more of a go if the team is struggling to break the barriers down.

I can already see/hear the incandescent rage of the duo queues who get lumped in with a silent four stack with the low gold insta-locking Tracer/Genji. Will keep an eye out for people bitching us out on the OW PS4 groups.

I can't believe how bad this season has been, the standard of teammates is so low. I'm on at the moment, solo-queuing against my better judgement. Hanzo, Genji and Junkrat mains everywhere, no awareness of hero mechanics or team composition, it's impossible to get a good run going.

Wasn't particularly convinced by the whole "ELO hell" thing before but fuck me, I get it now.

I've plummetted from ~2800 to ~2400 over the past 2/3 weeks. Just pure rage at how rubbish the standard is at times. Widowmakers, Hanzos, Junkrats, Genjis everywhere. It's so frustrating, it's almost as bad as quick play!

Did well enough yesterday though, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. Multiple chokes in the last game though, our Mercy sat on top of the point, unshielded, with rez is her pocket was the standout. Easy win if she'd hidden in the building on the left and the DPS had pushed forward to harass while we controlled the point.

We were good though, having a reliable Soldier behind me to follow up on my hooks made a world of difference, we cruised for two and a half games.

Orisa is a weird one, I think she's good, her cool downs are super low so if the red team doesn't have good focus/Bastion she can have a barrier up almost permanently. But she doesn't offer the same initiation as Rein with his ultimate and pin, so isn't necessarily as good on attack.

Volskaya, Hanamura and Eichenwalde are well suited to her as well. I think she can work better than Rein on defence because she's just holding one point, can turn to deal with flankers without dropping her shield, and doesn't have to worry about recharge.

Can't get on Saturday, working on Sunday so don't fancy getting all pumped up on OW before a 6:30 start

Bit rough on Friday, even in a 5 stack. Managed to recover from the couple of losses with a quick solo queue Saturday afternoon though.

There's a good video on Your Overwatch this morning, analysing some D.Va play and talking about target prioritisation and the whole damage medal fallacy with tanks/characters generally, it's worth a look if anyone wants to fine tune their D.Va-ing.

Makes such a difference having an idea of how people play, like knowing if I pin their Rein everyone is behind me ready to clean up or of Rich is on high charge I can speed him in to clean up. Much better than solo queue.

Edit: I see Able went on a bit of a solo run and made Plat I've edged into the 2900s as well. Even managed a Winston POTM, what is happening.

How useful is Zen in comp? Was playing him in mystery hero last night and proper enjoyed it and seemed to be contributing to my team quite well. If he's useful for us when we go into comp I'll happily play him.